We Stand Our Ground--Wm Rivers Pitt Keynote Speech WOW!

They call it Pax Americana, a plan to invade Iraq, take it over, create a permanent military presence there, and use the oil revenues to fund further wars against virtually every nation in that region. This we call bringing our "values" over there. Norman Podhoretz, one of the ideological fathers of this group of neoconservatives who now control the foreign policy of this nation, described the process as "the reformation and modernization of Islam." That's a pretty fancy phrase. I am a Catholic, and can therefore call it by its simpler name: Crusade. We know all about those.

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But is it all ideology for these men (PNAC)? Of course not. There is the payout. Have you ever heard of a company called United Defense, out of Arlington, Virginia? Let me introduce you. United Defense provides Combat Vehicle Systems, Fire Support, Combat Support Vehicle Systems, Weapons Delivery Systems, Amphibious Assault Vehicles and Combat Support Services.

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Who owns United Defense? Why, the Carlyle Group, which bought United Defense in October of 1997. ...Who works for the Carlyle Group? George Herbert Walker Bush works for the Carlyle Group, has been a senior consultant for Carlyle for some years now and sits on the Board of Directors. This company is profiting wildly from this war in Iraq, a tidy gift from son to father.

And then, of course, there is Dick Cheney's Halliburton, profiting in the millions from the oil in Iraq. Halliburton subsidiary, Brown & Root, is also in Iraq. Their stock in trade is the building of permanent military bases. Here is your permanent military presence in Iraq, and all for an incredible fee. Cheney still draws a one million dollar annual check from Halliburton, what they call a 'deferred retirement benefit.' In Boston, we call that a paycheck.

http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/8588

GREAT piece. Sums up the whole stinking mess.

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He has tons more of this stuff.

I posted a report about the event friday night.

http://truthout.org/ is his news site.

That was a 6 Kleenex speech. Will, you just made me terribly ashamed that I ever considered for one moment leaving my country. I printed this so that when the going gets tough, or tougher, I can read it and know what we must all do. Here I stand. I can do no other.

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